There are two movies at the top of my #HATM watch list: Casablanca and Iron Jawed Angels.
Casablanca is one of my own Top Five. It’s also on a list of optional-watch films related to WW2 that I try and induce my APUSH students to watch over the Presidents Week break. I get a lot of reviews from teenagers that include some variation of, “Wow, I’ve never watched a black and white movie and I was surprised how much I like this movie.”
Iron Jawed Angela is the only film I show in its (near) entirety in my US History classes. Year-after-year, it grips students with its re-telling of Alice Paul and the NWP’s final push for the 19th Amendment.
I’d also like to throw in a vote for Anna and the Apocalypse as a Christmas season viewing, if it’s available 🧟♂️🎄😄
My husband and I just watched El Dorado, and wow! - that movie has a lot in it. Not just James Caan and his funky hat, but as you said, Robert Mitchum is a standout. The Last of the Mohicans is in a universe by itself in terms of acting, cinematography, and history (as you said, not much about the Seven Years' War). I'll make another request to add Charlie Wilson's War and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. . .
There are two movies at the top of my #HATM watch list: Casablanca and Iron Jawed Angels.
Casablanca is one of my own Top Five. It’s also on a list of optional-watch films related to WW2 that I try and induce my APUSH students to watch over the Presidents Week break. I get a lot of reviews from teenagers that include some variation of, “Wow, I’ve never watched a black and white movie and I was surprised how much I like this movie.”
Iron Jawed Angela is the only film I show in its (near) entirety in my US History classes. Year-after-year, it grips students with its re-telling of Alice Paul and the NWP’s final push for the 19th Amendment.
I’d also like to throw in a vote for Anna and the Apocalypse as a Christmas season viewing, if it’s available 🧟♂️🎄😄
My husband and I just watched El Dorado, and wow! - that movie has a lot in it. Not just James Caan and his funky hat, but as you said, Robert Mitchum is a standout. The Last of the Mohicans is in a universe by itself in terms of acting, cinematography, and history (as you said, not much about the Seven Years' War). I'll make another request to add Charlie Wilson's War and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. . .
Also in El Dorado, you could talk about how there aren't many John Wayne movies where he's not focus of attention. . .